"In his largest book to date "The Devil May Care” Aaron McElroy takes his diaristic taxonomy further by incorporating nefarious totems of desire to a new level. Within the tradition of his past works, he continues to look at the female body with a less eroticized view for that of exploring the subject in various states of glancing over that of the gaze."

"With the Californian desert as background, “Happy Nothing” is a personal journey that delves into the lives of its inhabitants and its secrets. Here is where ex-convicts, war veterans, retirees and people that for some reason have decided to stay outside of the society live. In these towns there is no running water, the houses are in ruins, the streets unpaved, without street lighting, there are no supermarkets or entertainment infrastructures. But despite living in this conditions, they call it the Paradise."

"Produced between 2011 and 2013 in Iberian Peninsula, this book deals with my relationship with the rural environment and the emotions brought about by the possibility of taking the big step of leaving the city and living closer to nature. Country Fictions also reflects on the photographic language itself and how we are influenced by previous representations and preconceived ideas about rural utopias. The illusion of escaping from contemporary society, the naivety and the hopes built around nature come together with the strangeness and the nostalgic look at a life that is not mine."

"Processed Views interprets the frontier of industrial food production: the seductive and alarming intersection of nature and technology. As we move further away from the sources of our food, we head into uncharted territory replete with unintended consequences for the environment and for our health. We built these views to examine consumption, progress and the changing landscape."

24 November 2014

"Escape is a photo book of 40 pages that take away the reader in the heart of green lungs of big urban cities. These natural spaces, away from prying eyes, offer a world of escape, romance, lack of care and freedom."

"In the 144-page book, large-format landscape photographs of the North American province face off images of Brandenburg and its surroundings. The book title "Transatlantic Relations" refers to the playful approach to substantive as well as formal image relationships that Sioda gleaned from the respective environments. In doing so, the border between foreign and known starts to blur, the key to the volume's wit as well as its depth."

23 November 2014

Negatives are StoredVladyslav Krasnoshchok53 Postcards from original hand painted old cabinet and visit portrait images in a wooden boxPaper: Arches 250 grSize of the wooden box: 12cm x 16cmEdition of 100 signed by the author.Digital Printing€55 + shipping

"One chilly Sunday morning I was strolling through a flea
market in Kharkov when I spotted vintage photos: cabinet and visit portraits,
lying around on the ground covered with snow and slush flying from people’s
feet. I started to buy these photos in a daring attempt to save them. Many of
them had an inscription '
Negatives
are stored ' or '
Negatives
are stored for
further orders' on the back. But collecting somebody else’s photos just for the
purpose of keeping them seemed pointless. I decided to give them a new life, a
new beginning… may be a life they never had."

“One night I was outside of a club in London, I think at that moment I started to hear it… The Sound of Midnight… How many pictures did I take that night? One roll? Two rolls, three? When I ran out of rolls, I’d re-expose the previous ones anyway. I’m trigger happy, it always helps to wash the doubts away. People nowadays are afraid of the silence. Every day, as the propaganda tells us the precise opposite, we feel less human and less loved–as a photographer, there’s nothing I can do about it. But past midnight, when the smell of perfumes, cigarette and restaurant grease mix, when the humming of the bass echoes in the streets, when I hear this Sound of Midnight, I get this appetite for action, for images and for their destruction."

"It’s thirty-six degrees, a dry desert sun burns the roof. From up here the vast empty ground seems endless. The heat and the wind touch my skin. I open a door, the background noise of the city fades away."

"Photos are not just shots that have been taken spontaneously. They are also an interesting way which can tell us several things, or explain the feelings of the photographer. The photos in this book can be a mirror image of our lives, the situations we deal with and the problems that we all have to face. Insightful messages and interesting ideas arise from these unique photos by Achraf Baznani, a very perceptive and intuitive photographer that certainly knows how to bring life to reality with his excellent shots."

"Kingdom is an imaginative world with its own set of rules where the power of the subconscious resurfaces through enigmatic images and unexpected relationships towards a deranged and more ambiguous experience of the everyday.Kingdom is composed of four different volumes containing photographs shot in different cities and locations around the world and made over a ten-year period (2004 -2014). Shot entirely in black and white, each book is printed on four different shades of pastel coloured paper. Kingdom II is the second book of the series."

"The publication features images from Belgrade born Ana Kraš and Marija Strajnic, taken throughout their shared hometown and where Ana now resides, New York. By collectively choosing eleven words and individually interpreting them, they've created diptych-esque spreads throughout the title."

"On the steepest hill in Brighton – behind the Regency splendour and famed landmarks that define this newly appointed city – sits the Bristol Estate. Alexis Maryon presents an honest and intimate portrait of a local housing estate that defies preconceptions and expectations."

"These photographs of tank batteries Were all made Within a few miles of my front door in Southern Illinois There are a handful of photos here but there Could very well be hungarian Tank batteries overwhelm the landscape here. They are a reminder of Both the previous oil booms que have come and gone here and the rumored impending oil boom que has yet to materialize."

11 November 2014

"In CENTRO both the images and the objects I photograph are a direct result of transformation, of acting over the surface of the city. Like an Archeologist I search for what was left behind. Objects and man made constructions are the material where I search for order and evidence, building a personal understanding of downtown São Paulo, the city that is my home."

"Dark Portraits Rome 1982-1985 is the first book by Roman photographer Dino Ignani. The book is a selection from the artist’s archive: shots of the youth that lit up the Roman night life in the early ’80s and, in particular, the venues and events related to the so-called dark universe. The dark community encompassed the various musical tendencies and the fashion of those years: from post-punk to new romantic to gothic. These photos were shot in video-bars, discos and other places where dark events took place at the time (Olimpo, Supersonic, Angelo Azzurro, Blue Bar, C-Club, Venice, Black Out, Uonna Club, Piper, Cinema Espero) and where Ignani would invite the habitués to pose for their portraits. With an essay by Roberto D’Agostino."

"Pim Top is a photographer with a distinct focus on the body, gesture, light and expression. With a background in philosophy he searches for deeper layers within his work. He is inspired by painters, psychologists and greek sculptors."

"Charlie Hillhouse's most recent work is an exploration into one of the most photographed places in the world, Niagara Falls. While driving from Canada back to New York Charlie stopped and joined the many tourists documenting their experience. He had not planned on taking any photographs and had to borrow a camera. The sublime power of the landscape moved him to want to photograph."

"Looking at painting is a journal featuring artists and ideas that exist within in the extended sense of painting. Often in sculptural and transcending approaches. Each journal comes with 2 works, commissioned to lie within the pages. A proposal of a film by Tom Camm and ‘Folds | & Folds ||’ by Charlotte Laidler."

"Based on the exploration and contemplation of the vicinity. Sometimes we have no shadow emerged from the personal experience of inhabiting an unfamiliar urban space. Highlighting the presence of natural elements, Margolles composes images where a dialogue is established beyond the urban form, which allows to assume a new aesthetics experience to the author, and questions his sense of identity."

Limited edition of 99 + 1AP
Each book comes with one original found photograph and one archival print (documentation of Album installation)

Price: 50 euros + shipping

"Album is formed from found photographs. Images have lost their original function (memory). To be more specific, no one remembers what is depicted in these photographs and why these images were created. The most understandable signs on photographs are notes and time left marks on the backs of found images. The reverse of photographs in the installation and the book eliminates the primary function of the non-verbal message. Only notes and time affected surfaces allow perceivers to interpret the "invisible" story. But you always know that there is something else."

"Charleroi was voted ‘ugliest city in the world’ in 2008. High unemployment, crime and poverty rates, political and social scandals, abandoned factories and ghost metros all contributed to this negative image. Could this formal prosperous, industrial city actually be so bad or was there still a hidden gem inside?"

"During a period extending over three years Line Bøhmer Løkken visited Tøyen Centre with her camera. The result of these forays is now being published in the book Tøyen sentrum, which consists of a total of 115 pictures."

02 November 2014

"Over the course of one year I accompanied the scientists and employees of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin for Materials and Energy (HZB). I took photographs in the experiment halls of the BESSY II research facility (electron storage ring) and the BER II (research reactor). Fundamental physics research is carried out at the HZB, where physicists investigate the structure and composition of matter itself. How is our world constructed? What does it consist of? What laws govern these structures so small they cannot be seen in a microscope?"

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